This Crazy "Lilo & Stitch" Theory Will Forever Change The Way You See The Movie

Coming up with theories about unknown aspects of a movie is super fun just because it's nice to pretend that your favorite stories are continuing on even when you're not watching. But when it comes to Disney theories, it's not just a fun pastime. It's a way of life. Like, Tarzan IS Anna and Elsa's little brother and you won't let anyone tell you anything different. The theories are more than theories... they're a literal belief system.

And now there's a new theory that's going to change the way you look at one of your fave Disney movies, Lilo & Stitch. You THOUGHT Lilo and Nani's parents died tragically in a car accident, but one Reddit user named Kapu_Koa's thinks there's more behind their death, and her theory is world-changing.

In the movie, when the Galactic Council comes to collect Stitch, the leader mentions she recognizes the super large and intimidating social worker Cobra Bubbles because he was with the CIA at Roswell. But why would a CIA agent that literally contacted aliens just up and leave the CIA to be a social worker? Well, Kapu_Koa's theory is that Lilo and Nani's parents were actually SPIES and Cobra Bubbles was their partner who promised to look after Lilo and Nani after they died, presumably, in the field.

"He keeps an eye on them, makes sure they're safe, which is why they find themselves so easily 'in the sheltered harbor of [his] patience,'" they explain. "Lilo's behavioral problems, the state of their house, and the frequency Lilo is left to her own devices would have any other social worker taking Lilo out of that environment well before the events of the film, or at the very least intervening with some sort of court ordered therapy."

Kapu_Koa's theory theory also explains Lilo's obsession with books that girls her age usually don't even know about.

"This may also explain the eclectic collection of books in her room (roadmaps of Iowa, Oyster Farming: Is It For You?, Practical Voodoo, Fire Eating for Fun and Profit)," they explain. "Her [parents] likely had many books of wide ranging topics he read to research for his various overseas undercover assignments, which she noticed and tries to emulate."

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